Hopes Rise As Coal Talks Resume Amid Strike
Washington reports tentative progress as John L. Lewis and soft coal operators reopen negotiations to end an 88,000 miner strike. Southern operators excluded. possible return to work next week. Some union leaders urge continued walkout while NLRB action may be postponed for talks. Senator Donnell warns of uncertainty about a settlement.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
North
West
United Mine Workers’ Chief
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Uniontown
Richmond B. Reech
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Donnell
R-Mo
14 year old girl accuses pastor in statutory rape case
A 14 year old girl eight months pregnant testified she had intimate meetings with James L. Pettit former pastor of a Thompsonville Baptist church now charged with statutory rape. Pettit denied the accusation stating the girl visited his home for housework and that his wife was away. The trial was to be heard by a Franklin County Circuit Court jury.
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Pettit
Fowler
Winchester Youth Held for Jury Over Armed Robbery Attempt
Joseph Robert Cather Jr., 22, of Winchester, arrested Thursday near Ninevah on attempted armed robbery charges, will have his case presented to a Warren County grand jury Tuesday. He allegedly tried to hold up Hudson's Grocery on Rt. 522 but fled.
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Joseph Robert Cather Jr
Winchester
Ninevah
Warren County
Cather
Hudson's Grocery
House of Good Food
A. C. Gates Lumber Yard
South End
Motorist Fined For 85 mph Speed
Two motorists arrested on reckless driving and speeding were fined a total of 175 dollars. James M. Hughes of 122 Monmouth St. was fined 50 dollars and had his license suspended six months. Earl Franklin Snapp of 31 Whitlock Ave was fined 50 dollars for reckless driving in the city and 75 dollars for speeding 85 mph in the county. Officers Emory Rodgers and Lester Shickle pursued them on Millwood Ave.
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James M. Hughes
Monmouth St
John Rice
Earl Franklin Snapp
Whitlock Ave
Emory Rodgers
Lester Shickle
Millwood Ave
Twenty One Adults Complete First Distributive Education Class
Twenty one certificates were awarded marking the first in a series of adult classes sponsored by the Winchester School Board and the State Department of Distributive Education. The two week course met weekdays, with guests including Garland R. Quarles and Ralph Larson.
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Winchester School Board
State Department of Distributive Education
Garland R. Quarles
Winchester Schools
Ralph Larson
Retail Merchants Assn
Quarles
Chaucer
Larson
Harry A. Carpenter
Gray and Eddy
June Clowser
Edward C. Dovell
McCrory’s
Frank Milton Dick
Men’s Clothes Shop
Louise Patrick
Winchester News
Cerelle Plummer
Clowe’s
James H. Letterman
John W. Rosenberger and Co
Joseph R. Prickett
Winchester Business College
Evelyn Combs
Jeanette Combs
Newberry’s
Peggy Campbell
Stella Shade
Woolworth’s
Harold M. Darlington
F. Howard Schindel
C. L. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage Corp
Lacie Seldon
Ethel Fries
Ash Hat Shop
Duane C. Bean
Montgomery Ward
Wilkie W. Hunt Jr
C. A. Davis
R. L Hutchinson
J. E. Johnson
Mary McKinney
Dental Clinic Gets Started in Clarke County
A dental clinic sponsored by the State Department of Health and Clarke County School Board began yesterday. Dr. James Cain of Charles Town will perform all dental work for county elementary pupils over several months. Dr. W. H. Rumble plans to arrive early next week to present Cain with a new trailer containing a complete dental office. Work will start after the trailer is in place and examinations are underway.
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State Department of Health
Clarke County School Board
James Cain
Charles Town
W. Va
W. H. Rumble
Clarke County
Cain
Teen-Agers Enjoy Dance at George Washington Hotel
The George Washington Hotel hosted the second Teen Age Dance sponsored by Voiture 1078 of Forty and Eight. Free to city and county students, the event featured the Twilight Band for square dancing led by M. J. Shorty Billmyer with Mickey Sharp, 14, of Uniontown entertaining during intermission.
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George Washington Hotel
Voiture
Twilight
M. J
Shorty
Billmyer
Mickey Sharp
Uniontown
Beverly Cowie
Mickey
Capitol Theatre
Count Basie
Ted Weems
Robert Pizzano
Herbert Solenberger
Anna Belle Pulley
M. J. Billmyer
Howard Holland
Charles Aikin
Eugene Dearing
Hight
LeRoy Cahill
William Louthan
Carl Campbell
Recreation Commission
Paul Rosenberger
Diane Hunt
Carolyn Stanley
Manuel Semples
Glenn LaVecchia
Ronny Wilson
Jimmy Lawrence
Charles Robertson
Dorothy Lichliter
Gretchen Armstrong
Mary Martha Bisenberg
Boy Escapes As Gas Burns At Shawnee Ave Yard
Seven year old Eddie Strosnyder narrowly avoided serious injuries when gasoline spilled in a yard at 251 Shawnee Ave ignited. His father Lyle P. Strosnyder pulled him from the glowing area as flames flared around the old pump tank. Firefighters arrived to find the fire under control.
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Eddie Strosnyder
Shawnee Ave
Lyle P. Strosnyder
Eddy
Strosnyder
Telephone Official Lashes at Union in Richmond
W H Trapnell, vice president and GM of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of Virginia, calls CWA union charges of low wages and poor conditions false and malicious. He denounces CIO president Joseph A Beirne for making statements aimed at inciting unrest and strike action among telephone workers.
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Richmond
W. H. Trapnell
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Virginia
CWA
Trapnell
Joseph A. Beirne
Communications Workers of America
CIO
General Assembly Travels To Williamsburg for Parley
In Williamsburg's restored Capitol, Virginia lawmakers heard a leading Norfolk lawyer argue that shifting local obligations to the state will erode local self government, with Governor Battle backing a $45 million aid plan for schools. The joint session included the governor, the State Supreme Court justices, and Rockefeller supporters who praised Williamsburg's historic role.
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Williamsburg
Virginia
Virginia General Assembly
House of Burgesses
Capitol
Robert B. Tunstall
Norfolk
John 8. Battle
Assembly
Battle
Tunstall
Eateens Tunstall
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
State Supreme Court
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
West Virginia
Richmond
House
Senate
A Word Of Advice A Word Of Advice
A Los Angeles survey of 1,000 business men by Woodbury College finds bosses value neat, accurate, dependable secretaries over glamor. They cite lack of punctuality gum chewing sloppy appearance and inefficiency as top secretary flaws.
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Los Angeles
Woodbury College
Pitman Man Held Without Bail For Murder At Franklin & Marshall
Edward Gibbs, 25, of Pitman New Jersey, a Franklin and Marshall College senior, is held without bail on a murder charge in Marian Baker's death. Arrained before Alderman J Edward Wetzel Gibbs sat expressionless and did not testify. He faces trial at the March term. Baker, 21, a college secretary, was reported missing January 10 and found four days later with head injuries beneath a summer cottage south of Lancaster. Gibbs admitted involvement in a statement to Dr Theodore Distner the same day he entered the F and M office. District Attorney Ranck said Gibbs choked and beat Baker “on an impulse.”
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Lancaster
Edward Gibbs
Pitman
N. J
Franklin and Marshall College
Marian Louise Baker
Gibbs
J. Edward Wetzel
Lancaster County
Miss Baker
Pennsylvania
Theodore W. Distner
Jo M. Ranck
Widow seeks approval to wed twice-convicted killer
DETROIT widow Mary Schmidt, 39, mother of three, asks Wayne County Sheriff Andrew Baird for permission to marry Bernard Niedzialkowski, a man twice convicted of killing two wives. He remains jailed awaiting a mandatory life sentence after a 1947 retrial and a 1950s shooting death of Madeline Koszyk.
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Detroit
Bernard Niedzialkowski
Wayne County
Andrew C. Baird
Mary Schmidt
Bernard
Priso
Niedzialkowski
Olga
Madeline Patricia Koszyk
Michigan
Fire kills four children. suspect held in Glen Burnie
In Glen Burnie Maryland police say a residence fire that killed four Hartenstein children ages eight months to five years may have been deliberate. A 51 year old Alexandria handyman William M Cooper was arrested held for investigation after patrons at a tavern noted his curious questions about the blaze and he was found with fire related papers. A boy saw a man with an engineer cap near the home before the fire. The burned house belonged to the Hartlethers. Police found fires in the detention room as Cooper was questioned.
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Glen Burnie
Anne Arunde
John H. Souers
Alexandria
William M. Cooper
John
George
Louis
Rose Hartenstein
Cooper
Hartenstein
Washington, D. C
Solers
Sourers
Souers
Charles Harleather
Colonial Art & Craft Shop
W. Piccadilly
Winchester
Admiral
H Bomb Dispute Unabated After Truman Statement
Washington reports the hydrogen bomb debate continues as President Truman signals the decision rests with him. Senator McMahon notes committee discussions on advances in atomic weapons, while AEC leader Lilienthal denies misrepresented views.
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Washington
Truman
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate House Atomic Committee
Atomic Energy Comission
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Commission
White House
Russia
Nothing New In Spy Case
WESTMINISTER Md. Rep Nixon said there is nothing new in the documents he produced in the House. Chambers testified that Harry Dexter White supplied the papers. Chambers, former Time editor now farming near Westminster, added there is nothing new and government has all he had. Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury last week.
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Westminister
Nixon
Rcal
House of Representatives
Ee Chambers
Chambers
California
House
Harry Dexter White
the Treasury
White
Alger Hiss
Time Magazine
Urey Urges U.S. to Race for Hydrogen Bomb
Nobel laureate Dr. Harold C. Urey warned America must pursue the hydrogen bomb to avoid Soviet victory in the armaments race. He said the H bomb could be up to 1000 times more powerful than the A bomb, noted past delays, and estimated development costs from 100 million to several billion dollars, while expressing hope research may fail but not counting on it.
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New York
America
Russia
Harold C. Urey
Dr. Urey
Patrick Henry
Urey
Truman
U. S
Ussr
Rescue Planes Join In Search for C-54
Rescue planes from the United States and Canada joined a broad search for a US Air Force C-54 missing two days earlier with 44 aboard. The vanished four engine transport departed Anchorage for Great Falls en route to Briggs Field El Paso. Weather was poor with zero temperatures and blizzards hampering efforts.
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Chapleau
Ont
Ontario
Here
Sault Ste. Marie
Canada
Ontario Lands Department
Kermak
Chaplea
Honeylake
United States
Alaska
Transit Talks To Be Resumed In Virginia Dispute
Wage negotiations between Virginia Transit Co and the AFL Amalgamated Association representing about 1600 workers in Richmond Norfolk and Portsmouth will resume Monday at the urging of Governor Battle. A strike threat hangs over the talks after a deadlock over pay. The union seeks a 15 cent hourly wage hike while the company offers to extend the current contract a year. Governor Battle says the talks show a serious but constructive spirit. State law may allow seizure of the utility to avert a strike.
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Richmond
Virginia Transit Co
Battle
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Tuck
WTC
Rail Workers Are Laid Off Amid Coal Strikes and Week Cut
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces the layoff of 3,800 employees due to a three day work week and coal industry strikes. Estimated monthly coal and coke carloadings drop by over 23,000 from last year, with merchandise down more than 21,000 cars, totaling about 5 million dollars in revenue loss. Furloughed workers include locomotive and car repair staff and maintenance crews in round houses and yards.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Far West Area Hit by Storm
A storm buffeted the far west as cold weather lingered over the northern plains. Eastern and southern regions enjoyed near normal winter conditions. Temperatures dipped 35 to 40 degrees in the northeast and Appalachians. Light rain fell in the Carolinas and northern California. Snowblanket hit eastern Oregon northern Idaho Montana and North Dakota setting January records: Pendleton 39 inches Seattle 30 Yakima 25. Train service disrupted. power and communications lines knocked out in northern California and Oregon.
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Pony Morro
Florida Peninsula
Central
Appalachians
Mississippi Valley
Carolinas
California
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Pendleton
Seattle
Yakima
Wash
Mercy Trial Recessed In Conn After Insanity Claim
Bridgeport doctors debated Carol Ann Paight insanity as the mercy murder trial paused until next Tuesday. The 21-year-old defendant faces life in prison if convicted of killing her father Sgt Carl Paight after the Sept 23 shooting. Her mother Mrs Mary Paight supports her defense amid courtroom tension.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Carol Ann Paight
Carol Ann
Mary Paight
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General Assembly
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Lyle P. Strcsnyder
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Selfridge Field
Timmins
Department of Transport
Porquis
Rockcliffe
Ottawa
Mba Es Air Transport
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